The heart of the exhibition was The Midden – a domestic rubbish coup discovered at the bottom of artist Janet McEwan’s garden in Aberdeenshire in the summer of 2002. The midden is shown in its entirety, nothing has been omitted, nothing has been discarded.

The midden is thought to span around one hundred years, from the 1850s until the 1960s. Thereafter the local authority collected and transported domestic waste to communal dumps, the predecessors of landfill sites such as Nether Dallachy.

Photographs are the copyright of Deiter Bartholomai,
224 Pineridge, The Park, Findhorn